Tennis is a brutal sport that has pushed me to become stronger by challenging me physically‚ mentally‚ and emotionally especially after crushing defeats like my loss to Ben Ramon and 6-0; 6-0 losses. I was first introduced to the sport when I was only two tennis racquets tall. My parents had picked up the sport recreationally and to began to play more and more often. Consequently‚ I spent an extensive amount of time at the country club either watching them‚ pretending to be a ball-boy at the US
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THE CSM WEEK 2012 EVENTS: Sports Events -- 30 % Literary Events -- 20 % Cultural Events -- 25 % Special Events -- 11 % CineScima -- 14 %______ TOTAL -- 100% The following table shows the weight distribution for each CSM WEEK event: CATEGORIES/ EVENTS OVERALL WEIGHTS I. SPORTS EVENTS A. Major Events 1. Basketball (Male) 4 % 2. Volleyball (Male) 3.5 % 3. Volleyball (Female) 3.5 %
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irreplaceable ability and control that part of the match or game which actually can be controlled by the athletes themselves. Nobody plans to do badly‚ but sometimes things are not working like we wish they were‚ or sometimes our opponent is simply better. Tennis players do not want to miss the balls‚ soccer players do not try to kick an inaccurate passes‚ and sprinters do not want to mess up the start however‚ athletes can control their emotions and energy level‚ they can control the level of their concentration
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Drills for Students: Badminton Shane Weatherby was a professional ballet dancer for fifteen years‚ rising to the rank of Principal by 21. Now retired from dancing‚ he is a very experienced high school teacher majoring in physical education and dance. Shane has brought his understanding of refined skill acquisition to many sports and coaches’ badminton for many organisations. In badminton‚ skill acquisition develops faster for students when an ‘authentic’ environment is used. This is due
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Tennis is a highly competitive sport with participation in over 200 countries throughout the world. It is a non-contact racquet sport which requires aspects such as strength‚ power‚ speed‚ coordination and agility. Like any sport‚ tennis places specific demands on the body which can predispose any player to injury. These demands placed on the body result in injuries specific to the game. It is said by Pluim et al (2006) that although many injuries that occur in tennis are common in other sports‚
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The author of this article basically asserts that whether a person be playing chess or tennis‚ the brain is utilized in a similar manner between aspects that require knowledge and the ones that seemingly don’t. In the article‚ elite athletes are used as examples to show how they easily use just as much brain power as the champion for professional checkers does. In athletics‚ the players need to be able to keep their A game‚ and get in the “zone”; in entering their zones‚ the brain manipulates a part
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process of scrambling the eggs and flipping the pancakes would get me and everyone else in an upbeat mood. Giving a helpful hand in the morning would also give me a sense of worthiness. After breakfast is ready and served‚ my family would sit around the table together. We would discuss what we had dreamed about that night‚ what we had read in the news‚ and what we were doing that day. After cleaning up‚ I would make some calls to some of my friends and suggest that we all gather up all the clothes we
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fingers gently cradled around it. For a forehand serve you must drop the shuttlecock into the path of the racket; this is different from a backhand serve‚ where you "hit from the hand". Options Languages svenska Playing hand Left hand Right hand Table of contents Introduction Types of badminton serve Where to stand Weight transfer and body turn Before you hit the shuttlecock‚ you should begin a smooth transfer of weight from your back foot towards your front foot. The hitting action takes place
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Tennis match analysis To begin with‚ in the women’s double match video‚ Williams’s team was more aggressive at the net than Sara’s. Apparently‚ Venus Williams was playing with very powerful serve and she could cover the court by using her long reaching technique. On the other hand‚ Sara and Roberta were playing with good cooperation. Obviously‚ they were playing with good tactics to win the game. Also Sara’s movement was very fast on the ground‚ I noticed she could return Williams’s fast serve
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and too quickly moving on to the next thing with mediocre results. It’s like a car radio with bad reception; you can hear several stations at once but not very clearly. In a talk by sports psychologist Dr. Cheryl McLaughlin‚ she spoke to a group of tennis professionals about multitasking in men and women. She conducted a study showing that women’s brains fire in more locations of the brain than men’s while engaged in similar activities. In a broad sense‚ men tend to be more linear and logical in their
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